Category: Station Project

I was recently in Fraser with Denis Moynihan and Dave Dieter, getting this 10,000 watt station on the air before it’s permit deadline expired. It was a race to the finish line, but we got it on the air! Right now it is just a computer with some songs, but a studio is coming soon! Read More About the Station in Sky Hi Daily News

On January 1st, San Joaquin Delta College rebooted onto the FM airwaves after a 20 year lapse. The station had been on the air when Radio TV department head Will Story was a student, but the administration had axed it in the mid- 90s. When he came back to lead the department, Professor Story vowed to get the radio station back on the air, and took his sabbatical to wade through all the paperwork of applying for a LPFM and procuring funding. He recruited former student Governor Don Maszewski to lead the effort and be the new radio station …

In early November, I went to work on a new station for the Tlingit Tribe in Yakutat, Alaska. The station is being spearheaded by Gloria Benson, who works on social services for the tribe. The new studio is in a building that was once the school for the town, but is now the courthouse and planning department. Yakutat peaks at about 780 residents. There are no roads that go from yakutat to anywhere- the only way in is by airplane, or there is a ferry during the summer. It is about 30 miles from a gigantic glacier. A major …

Construction has gotten to the halfway mark with the Diné Policy Institute. This school, in Tsaile, Arizona, was the first indigenous owned and operated college in the United States. I worked with the team there to build a metal framework to attach to their existing railing at the top of the dome on their beautiful 1970s era main college building.

This spring, Petri traveled to Uganda to work with an exciting new project in community radio, Rootio ( Rootio.org). Spearheaded by Chris Csikszentmihalyi, this project aims to develop a new type of small community radio station that is deeply conneced to the mobile phone networks. Different stations will take different forms, but the smallest of the new stations will have no studio– all talk shows will be conducted using the

Just returned from another round of work on the new radio station for Radio Voz, the radio station of Idaho Community Action Network in Burley, Idaho. This 5600 watt station is a progressive, Spanish language voice in one of the most conservative states. It has an incredibly passionate and loyal audience, even though it is just over a year old now.

Our first project in Nicaragua was at the Maria Luisa Ortiz co-operative in Mulukuku, a station that was started with the assistance of our friends at Radios Populares. You can see a great video about the launch of the station here. They run an amazing clinic. They wanted us to check out their antenna, which has trouble when it rains, so we climbed up and redid a bunch of the connections.

In one of the most conservative states in the USA, Idaho Community Action Network has started up a new high powered radio station. I spent close to 2 months in Idaho, pulling together a link, a new studio, and installing a transmitter and preparing the group for broadcasting.

A quick note from me to my friend Clemencia Rodriguez, who set me up with a bunch of the groups I worked with during my 6 week trip to Colombia. I spent about 3 weeks in the language schools, and the rest of the time visiting and helping out with some of the new community radio stations there…